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Up to date news on the progress of the war, from Vera Cruz

A New Class of Slave States Enslaving American Citizens in Mexico

The preswedentila election in Northern Mexico of General Arista

Newspaper article from the United States Magazine and Democratic Review

The Mexican Cession was the result of the Mexican-American War from 1846-1848. President James K. Polk had promised to fulfill the "Manifest Destiny" before he left office, even if it meant going to war. With the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In…

American settlers travelling west during the westward expansion era of the nineteenth century.

Photographic portrait

Portrait of Amy S. Greenberg, Historian and Penn State Professor

Historian Amy S. Greenberg, behind her desk

Merk in the process of giving a lecture to a class